Re: Youtube - newbie guidance

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 12/22/2017 03:10 PM, Kent West wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> > I use User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101
> > Firefox/51.0 SeaMonkey/2.48 on a Debian Stretch machine with the MATE
> > desktop.
> >
> > I've never used youtube before.
> > I received a link to a youtube video <https://www.youtube.com/watch
> > ?v=82_bPWyrPFc> which played fine.
> >
> > I did not have time to watch the whole video.
> > How can I download and save it?
>
> # apt-get install youtube-dl
> # youtube-dl <some-youtube-URL>
> # <some-media-payer> <name-of-downloaded-file>

That did very nicely. The Debian package includes "mpv Media Player".

Now all I have to do is get an external speaker in order to get 
comfortable volume. Would mpv be able to send the audio to a bluetooth? 
Saw a convenient size speaker sometime back at a local computer store.